Learning from Preservice Teachers' Responses to Trans-Themed Young Adult Literature: Improving Personal Practice in Teacher Education

Autor/in	Parsons, Linda T.
Titel	Learning from Preservice Teachers' Responses to Trans-Themed Young Adult Literature: Improving Personal Practice in Teacher Education
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 37 (2016) 6, S.933-947 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2015.1084105
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; Student Attitudes; Adolescent Literature; Vignettes; Teaching Methods; Reading Material Selection; Homosexuality; Sexual Identity; Sexual Orientation; Novels; Reader Response; Social Attitudes; Consciousness Raising + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schülerverhalten; Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; literatur; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Homosexualität; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Sexuelle Orientierung; Novel; Roman; Leserbrief; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Bewusstseinsbildung
Abstract	Tensions and contradictions in my personal practice and in the extant research prompted this study of preservice teachers' responses to trans-themed young adult literature. I adopted a self-study methodology to identify and address the shortcomings in my practice of including trans-themed literature in a Literature for Adolescents course. Through inductive analysis, I discovered that my students made statements related to literary, sociocultural, and personal themes. Next, I considered the data within and across themes to reflect on my personal practice. The students' responses suggest that I could improve my teaching practice by (1) guiding them to employ specific critical theories and analysis and (2) including multiple texts about the transgender experience. I propose and trouble these practices and consider the ways they confirm or contradict others' research regarding good teaching practices. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01